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From: robt@mummy.unsw.oz (Rob_Trevor)
Newsgroups: aus.mac,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Remote access to LocalTalk -- Advice wanted
Keywords: NetModem, MacTCP/IP, Timbuktu
Message-ID: <594@usage.csd.unsw.oz>
Date: 20 Mar 90 23:37:00 GMT
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I would like to be able to dial up my office network from home in order to:

        * telnet into various machines on the campus network (say with NCSA
          Telnet, or using the MacTCP/IP drivers etc)

        * remotely start up numerical/time intensive programs on my office Mac
          (say with Timbuktu)

I was wondering whether one of the NetModem products (eg Shiva's) would allow
me to do both of these.  My crude understanding is that it makes my remote Mac
think that its directly connected to the LocalTalk network.  Will NCSA Telnet,
the MacTCP/IP drives (for the NetNews reader say) and Timbuktu all accept that
the remote Mac is really 'on' LocalTalk?  

That seems to be the key question.  Once I can get the LocalTalk connection
I'm right because it goes through a Webster box (running KIP) onto the campus
ethernet.

I would greatly appreciate any advice, especially from those who have
something similar running.  BTW, I know that Timbuktu Remote will allow me to
do this provided I run the news reader etc on my office mac (which is on the
network).  But when I'm working at home I'd prefer my office Mac to be number
crunching while my news/mail etc load is on my remote machine.

Thanks in advance.  Post or email replies to me at following address.

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Rob Trevor                                     robt@mummy.agsm.unsw.oz.au
Associate Professor
Australian Graduate School of Management           +61 2 662-0274 (voice)
University of New South Wales                      +61 2 662-2451 (fax)
Kensington, NSW, Australia, 2033

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